"Especially since it's the first that would be "fully" digitized, meaning, only some of the more "vanilla" documents would be digitized while the rest of the documents were stored & locked up"

Ding ding ding.

As a very amateur archivist who has watched very professional archivists work (archive.org, among others) at the time I was Grossed Out by the move towards "online archiving". Didn't suspect the reasons for the inadequacies was so malevolent, just assumed ineptitude. My bad.

"I used to be grossed out. Still am, but I used to be, too." R.I.P. Mitch Hedberg.